Professor Pac-Man

[Atarinvader]

Anybody ever played this? know of a ROM?

[Tempest]

I didn't even know it existed until I looked it up on KLOV. to my knowledge it hasn't been dumped yet. And I thought Baby Pac-Man was the rarest Pac-Man game...

 

Tempest

[Atarinvader]

I believe that there were only about 500 produced. They also planed extra modules for it so they could change the questions every month I think.

[Albert]

Wow, I never heard of this game either and just went over to KLOV to check it out. Too bad there are no screenshots. Out of the 400 that KLOV claims were made, I wonder what small percentage of them still exist in some form.

 

..Al

[Atarinvader]

They planned a version for Casinos, so I'm assuming that these machines gave out some cash?

 

I expect they all got broken up for spares...

[dcden]

I played Professor Pacman on one occasion way back in 1985. I was on a family vacation in California... the arcade was either in Disneyland (Anaheim) or a Six Flags type amusement park in San Jose. I can't remember which. Anyway, I never saw the game again after that.

 

The concept was basically timed observation games. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think one of the games was of the "pick the odd one out" variety... several similar pictures, but one was different in a minute way. I also want to say one of the games was a "Simon" type of game. The time limit to complete the game shortened as the game wore on.

 

I liked the game only because it featured Pacman, and that was during the time when I liked anything Pacman related. Yes, it is probably the rarest pacman game. As for Baby Pacman, one of them exists not too far from where I live, in Glen Burnie MD.

[dcden]

Here's a link to the owner's manual for the game. Doesn't tell you much from a player's point of view, but it does contain a screen shot of a mini-game where you had to select the mirror image of a given picture.

http://www.stormaster.com/RGVAC-Manuals/PD...r-pacman-p1.pdf

[Opa Opa]

It seems like a stupid game to me.

[AlanD]

I acquired about 10 boards that I think go to at least 2 boardsets for this game in a recent warehouse cleaning at a local amusement company. Unfortunately I have yet to find someone that has a full manual that they will scan so I can see if I have a whole set. I'm missing the card cage also but I think I can get around that problem. I just don't want to risk frying my boards to test them without more information. If anyone has a lead on a manual scan or original, I'll gradly see if I have a complete boardset and see about getting it dumped. Possibly then it can be emulated in MAME.

AlanD

[dcden]

A more detailed link to the manual I mentioned above can be found at:

http://www.stormaster.com/Spies/arcade/man...als/ProfPac.pdf

 

However the pages I believe you need to look at are impossible to read. I got the above link via:

http://www.arcadeobsession.com/manuals.html

 

There you'll probably get the necessary contact info so you can hopefully get a better copy of the manual. Good luck!

[Dav]

I acquired about 10 boards that I think go to at least 2 boardsets for this game in a recent warehouse cleaning at a local amusement company.  Unfortunately I have yet to find someone that has a full manual that they will scan so I can see if I have a whole set.  I'm missing the card cage also but I think I can get around that problem.  I just don't want to risk frying my boards to test them without more information.  If anyone has a lead on a manual scan or original, I'll gradly see if I have a complete boardset and see about getting it dumped.  Possibly then it can be emulated in MAME.

AlanD

 

It looks like you need 6 boards.

 

cpu

screen ram

super game memory

game i/o

640k eprom

pattern mover

plus the seperate audio amp but you can get that anywhere

 

It doesn't look to fun to dump, 40 eproms on just that 1 board! I wouldn't be suprised if someone stole some/all of them for another game.

 

Dave

[Dutchman2000]

Yes, it's been dumped. They are working on a MAME driver for it.